The Black Beauty Tea Room is a lovely place for afternoon tea at the with great views, and lots of beautiful horses. The Black Beauty Tea Room is named after the famous novel which in 1886 inspired the founder Miss Ann Lindo to establish a charity to help the working horses of London. To this day the charity continues to help working horses, providing horses and ponies who have served our nation with a dignified retirement at our Home of Rest for Horses.

Tea is served Thursday’s and Fridays 2-4pm. Visit the Horses Trust for more information.

The Malt Brewery’s dark ale was perfect for making rich beef and ale pies. If you would like to visit the brewery in Prestwood, Bucks take a tour and taste of what they have to offer visit www.maltthebrewery.co.uk.

We were invited to help harvest grapes this afternoon at the Seer Green vineyard, which was a great experience with thankfully lots of sunshine! It is a very friendly, family run vineyard which currently has Pinot noir, Auxerrois Blanc de Laquenexy and Serval Blanc cultivars. If you would like to learn more about it visit www.seergreenvineyard.co.uk

Our slow cooked veal cheek in port red wine, with white truffle oil mash, was a particular favourite last night. Veal is a very under-used, and underestimated in the UK, however there is a very strong argument for eating veal – but only British high-welfare or British rose veal*. Make sure that any veal you do buy is ethical. Speak to your butcher to ensure it has been approved by the Freedom Food scheme. Freedom Food is the only UK assurance and food-labeling scheme dedicated solely to improving farm animal welfare. We will only use only Freedom Foods veal.

We bought fish from ‘Fish for Thought’ for our function last night, fantastic quality crab, hand picked in Cornwall on Thursday and delivered to us on Friday. They deliver throughout the UK so if you are interested in buying sustainable fish and delicious hand picked crab visit their site: